Bird Brain...
 

Three days in a row...for at least a couple hours each day starting at 7am
This not-so-smart Robin has been trying to fly into my basement.
Tomorrow I'm putting a fake snake outside at the window. :)

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My guess is that it has to do with where the sun is this time of year. If there's a dark basement and the sun is just right, that window may be like a mirror to him. Maybe he's thinking "man, that's a damn good looking bird, I'm going to kick his ass!" If you turn the light on in the basement does he stop? Often if there's darkness behind a window, that increases the likelihood that window will act like a mirror.

And then some birds just aren't that smart. I've seen birds that would sit on the door of a car and attack the bird that they see in the side view mirror. There was one where I worked once that we saw almost every day over the course of a week once.

That is my guess.

https://www.thespruce.com/stop-birds-attacking-windows-386449

It can see inside the window ok because I tried getting closer with the camera...and it flew away every time. And it only happens early morning.

That link makes me think I should just put some blinds on the window.
The Robin has to be worn out after a few hours of that.

We had a mocking bird at work that would do that. It would pick any car, and sit on the rear view mirror, lean over and peck at it's reflection. When a bird is anywhere for more than a few seconds, it is gonna crap all over the place. It got to the point that when I got to work I would wrap a towel around my mirrors and the bird went to another car.

We finally used a pelit gun to dispatch it. We were all tired of washing bird crap off of our windows and car doors.

This robin makes the turtles look super smart!

You meant side view mirror?

Last year I had a robin that did the same thing to my Tundra for a couple of weeks.
Bird snot and s#it all over my mirror, door and side windows.

I was going to cap it's ass, but if the wife found out she would have done the same to me.

You mean that you can see out from the basement to outside? Of course, you're on the dark side of the window which can see to the bright side. The bird is on the bright side and when it's completely dark probably just sees a reflection. As you get close enough, you break the reflection, he sees you, and then goes away.

It's similar to how in the movies when there's 1-way glass, the folks that are watching through the glass are usually in a dark room (best example that I can think of is NCIS).

light behind the window, you can see through it. Dark behind the window, it reflects light from in front.

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https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uplo...flectivity.jpg

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+1

Because his ho is close by and he's jealous and ain't nobody gonna tap that ass but him. That is the answer.

^^^
Well...he is surely paying for it.
Can you imagine running into a wall..head first..over and over just for some tail wing??:)

Steve has it right. I had to whack a cardinal because it was constantly fighting the mirror on the 944. Everyday for a couple of weeks. Only so much bird crap and beak slobber can a man take.

Damn. The gf and I parade around the condo nekkid. I better close the blinds.

My wife has a cardinal that constantly attacks her office window...only in the Spring/early Summer.

Mating season.

That's what I was thinking.

taping strips of alum foil on the outside window helps scare them away.

I'll bet you could tape them to the inside and get the same result too.

This morning, he quit flying into the glass. I looked out and he was walking back and forth and watching the glass.
Maybe he's just worn out?...I don't know.

I'll see what happens tomorrow. Amazon snakes are due here today or Wed.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PMCH1NY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

Which one would scare a robin the most? :)

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What is the surface like just outside the window? My initial thought was "the black one." It's big and more realistic looking than the rest.

But where are you putting it, do you have a bed full of black mulch, green grass, something else?

^^^
I have 1-2" white stone all around the house.
Before I left for biking this am..I cleaned the bird smudge off the window pane and placed the black snake just to the front of it.
Three hours later...I'm back and there is no smear on the glass. I think he quit.

If it was a blackbird or sparrow...I have an easy solution, but the Robin is our state bird....

Cool. So you'd have tried to reason with the blackbird or sparrow, but those damned Robin's are unreasonable divas because of their status. I get it.

^^^ There would have been no reasoning involved!

I could have came up with a much better state bird than a Robin...but so it is.

I had to pull down a robin's nest from my outside light twice a day for over a week.
It was relentless, but I won in the end.
Getting back at it for s#itting all over my Tundra! (And no bird crap on my garage wall)

We moved to the country. I don't (yet) have my car in a garage. I spent a few days (multiple times per day) pulling nesting material out of the various vents on the boxster because a wren thought it was a great place to nest. I eventually cleaned out the vents and then covered all 4 with aluminum foil for days. A few weeks later, I ended up having to clean out the wife's outback (her car isn't here all of the time like mine is).

They work! :)

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OK, so it's working for the window. Is the other pic telling us that it keeps the turtles from soaking up the rays on the ramp or getting to their food too?

I put the green one on the ramp to see what they would do.
They didn't even seem to notice it. On the second day, I pulled it up higher (where it is in pic) and noticed that when the tail was in the water the turtles had chewed the end off. :)

Hahahaha.

I've recently read that some snakes will eat baby turtles, but that if snakes get too close to the wrong turtles, the turtles will happily take a bite out of the snake.

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I had to clean a bunch of bird poop off of the mirrors on my daughter's car the other day and thought about this thread. The culprit was a bluebird, what a mess!!!
I have observed birds attacking their reflections in the chrome rims on my '97 SHO, they fly into the rim with their feet straight out in front, bounce back only to repeat the process a few times before finally flying off. Birds be craycray!!!

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^^^ Do like I did...get some snakes from the Amazon.

And gorilla glue them to your chrome rims!

Or...thread them thru the slots and fasten them with zip-ties.:)

^^^ fantastic ideas!!! May be the start of a new trend!!! [emoji23]

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